| | Experience a sailing adventure charter in Panama and the Islas Las PerlasThe Pearl Islands are over 200 islands sprinkled throughout the Gulf of Panama.  Of these, only a few are inhabited and only a few have the amenities of Contadora. It boasts several hotels and restaurants, a few shops, a primary school, a police station, and an airport. The island is about 750 acres, is crossed by several roads, and can be walked around in an hour.  The 300 local residents include a number of transplanted travelers who were passing through and got stuck – and it is easy to see how that could happen. The Pearl Islands are incredibly welcoming. Developments and tourists are few and the islands are idyllically diverse and incredibly lush. Looking around there is a sense that the jungle will reclaim the buildings before the buildings could possibly claim the jungle. Orchids and vines grow as easily on rooftops as on trees. And with some luck, the move for bigger, taller, grander development will be limited to the mainland. In Pre-Columbian times, Las Perlas Islands were ruled by an Indian king whose main occupation was pearl-diving. Pearls were then used as ornament and to trade with.  Most pearls in the world were collected in these waters.
Las Perlas Islands arose the greed of the Spaniards. Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, who discovered and gave name to the Pacific Ocean from a point less than 90 kilometers from San Jose Island, was attracted by its wealth in gold and pearls. Later on, Las Perlas Island sheltered famous pirates of different nationalities, that for several centuries looted the wealthy Spanish settlements and fleet.
San Jose is the second largest of Las Perlas Islands, with 44 sq. kilometers, located in the middle of the Gulf of Panama and just 90 kilometers away from Panama City. It can be reached by boat in approximately 3 hours, and by propeller plane in 20 minutes.
Over 35 splendorous white coral, ebony black and radiant gold beaches and coves surround San Jose, embedded between the temperate and calm turquoise and blue waters of the Gulf of Panama, and the lush green vegetation that covers the whole island over gently sloping hills which peak, at the north of the island, to 440 feet.
The coast line is very irregular, affording many anchorage locations, being the best, Bodega Bay, on the west, one mile in length, and half a mile wide. 
Please contact us for more details about rates and availability for this unique sailing vacation charter adventure in Panama and the Islands of Las Perlas. |
